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List Price: $24.95 Our Price: $21.99 You Save: $2.96 Features • Anamorphic • Closed-captioned • Color • DVD-Video • Full Screen • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : May, 1994 DVD Release : 10 August, 1999 |
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Red Rock West description With Red Rock West and The Last Seduction, writer-director John Dahl established himself as America's leading maker of tough, twisted, funny little neo-noir pictures. Red Rock West is a spare, tight reworking of noirish motifs--the lone man caught in a web of circumstance and betrayal, the rich femme fatale, the corrupt policeman, the wounded military veteran, the homicidal psychopath--that brings to mind classics from Detour to Out of the Past to Bad Day at Black Rock. Cage--warming up for his career-peak (so far) performance in Leaving Las Vegas a few years later--plays an unemployed former Marine (his leg injured in the truck-bombing of the base in Beirut) who stumbles into a nightmarish situation when he stops at a bar in the isolated Wyoming town of Red Rock West. With one fateful step, he's trapped; and no matter how hard he tries, he just can't seem to leave town. The late J.T. Walsh is (as always) splendidly corrupt as the bar owner who harbors some deadly secrets, and Dennis Hopper does a variation on his patented Blue Velvet/River's Edge psycho that suits the treacherous environs of Red Rock West just fine. --Jim Emerson |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Modern noir |
| A penniless drifter (Nicholas Cage) becomes trapped in the machinations of greedy, ruthless people when he is mistaken for "Lyle from Texas," a hired killer. He thinks he can take the advance money for a murder, warn the victim (Lara Flynn Boyle), and run, but obviously it doesn't work out as smoothly as that. Director John Dahl co-wrote the screenplay with his brother Rick Dahl, and the two men clearly have a great love for and deep understanding of the genre of film noir. This clever, involving film about people who are in over their heads depends a bit too much on coincidence at a few crucial junctures, but it remains a very entertaining film. Dennis Hopper plays a more restrained version of the psycho he patented in "Blue Velvet," and the great character actor J.T. Walsh delivers a memorable performance. | |
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